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By Ben FinleyASSOCIATED PRESS • Monday March 11, 2013 9:53 AM

GRAY, Ky. — As flames engulfed a small house in rural southeastern Kentucky, Gino Cima raced to
the scene to try to save his nephew, his nephew’s fiancee and the five children inside.

The drive in the tiny town of Gray took just minutes, but family members said yesterday that
Cima was too late — he reached a side door as the fire raged and pulled out the bodies of the two
adults.

“Hey, there’s babies in there, there’s babies in there!” Cima screamed to firefighters,
according to his wife, Laura, who also was at the scene.

The fire killed all seven people in the ranch-style home on Saturday. Officials did not identify
the victims yesterday, but family members said the children ranged in age from 10 months to 3
years. They said the woman who died was three months pregnant and was the mother of three of the
children inside. The other two children were siblings and friends of the family, visiting for the
night for a sleepover, the relatives said.

Officials said the cause of the fire was under investigation. Arson investigators were at the
scene on Saturday, but officials said no foul play was suspected.

Laura Cima said she owned the single-story wood-frame house that the couple was renting. She
said they had recently moved in and were busy painting and getting carpets cleaned. They shared a
bedroom in the back of the house, and Cima said the children were sleeping in a front room on
Saturday morning. She described an unused bedroom where she and her husband saw flames pouring out
of a window when they arrived.

Gray is a few miles outside of Corbin, a city of about 7,000 in the foothills of Appalachia near
the Daniel Boone National Forest and the borders of Tennessee and Virginia.

Shannon Disney, a sister-in-law of one of the victims, said the house that burned is surrounded
by homes of family members — so many that the area is nicknamed “Disneyland.”

She said a relative who drove past the house at 7:45 a.m. noticed nothing unusual, but another
who lives nearby saw smoke coming from it around 9 a.m.